US tech giant Epic’s hospital records portal has been rolled out by NHS trusts in England. But amid poor integration with the ...

Four fifths of England’s integrated care boards would need to at least double their number of general practitioners to meet staffing standards considered safe for patients, a BMJ analysis of NHS ...

A study claiming that substituting nurses for doctors in a host of hospital settings is not only safe and effective but ...

The national cancer plan for England commits to ensuring that by 2035 75% of people who have had a cancer diagnosis are ...

James Michael Hirons (“Mike”) was born in Wales but won a choral scholarship to Hereford Cathedral School. His mother greatly ...

Daniel was born in Bristol to Sarah Stone and Colin Money, both teachers. He grew up in nearby Keynsham with his older ...

The UK needs bespoke regulation of medical AI to balance patient safety with innovation, write Gordon C Wishart and Robert ...

The General Medical Council (GMC) is appealing to the High Court against a decision clearing a British-Palestinian plastic surgeon of support for terrorism and for the proscribed organisation Hamas. A ...

Full and clear information about prospective or retrospective registration must be provided in submitted and published clinical trials, write David Blanco, Elizabeth Loder, and Sara Schroter When ...

Doctors should prescribe a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor alongside metformin to most patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, the National Institute for Health and Care ...

In a crowded medical curriculum, the social determinants of health are often reduced to theoretical bullet points buried on a preclinical slide, divorced from the real lives of those who experience ...

Keeping an open mind about factors contributing to chronic pain can help patients to explore what approaches might work for them, writes Barbara Holtzman At age 29, with a desire to get stronger and ...